Cotton-sack.



entre sransgra'rn'n operon.

WILL T. STOUT, OF KINTA, OKLAHOMA.

COTTON-SACK.

Application filed December 10, 1912.

To u/ unl/om, it may concern lle it known that l, `WILL T. S'roti'r, acitizen of the United States, residing at tiinta, in the county ofHaskell and State of Oklahoma, have invented new and useful improvementsin Cotton-Sacks, of which the following is a specification.

Specitically considered the invention relates to an attachment in thenature of a skid or shoe to be applied to a bag or sack such as usedwhen harvesting cotton, the purpose being to prevent the wear and tearon the vsack incident to dragging the same over the ground, to lessenthe ettort required to drag the sack since it will glide over thesurface more readily and finally to prevent damage to the cotton bydiscoloration when drawing the sack over the muddy places, since themuddy water prevented from penetrating the sack and discoloring thecotton.

The invention consists of a Shoe orl skid of sheet metal of peculiarformation adapted to be detachably connected with the sack so as to beused with any number', said shoe forming a runner upon which the sackglides when drawn over the field.

The invention consists of the novel features, details of constructionand combination of parts, which hereinafter will be more particularlyset forth, illrstrated in the accompanying drawing, and pointed out inthe appended claim.

Referring to the drawing, forming a part of the specification, Figure lis a perspective view of a cotton sack provided with an attachmentembodying the invention. Fig. T' is a perspective view of theattachment.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the followingdescription, and indicated in all the views of the drawing, by the santereference characters.

lhebag or sack l is such as generally used by cotton pickers forreceiving the harvest and is adapted to be drawn over the tield in theusual manner. ln accordance with this invention four snap hooks areattached to the upper rear corners and to the lower side of the sack atan intermediate point, the attachment being preferably by means of shortstraps 3 which are doubled upon themselves and engaged with the loops ofthe snap hooks and stitched or otherwise secured to the sack. The snaphooks 2 provide convenient means for detachably connecting the skid orshoe e to the under side of the sack. These hooks may also Specicaton ofLetters Patent.

Patented Mar. 24, 1914. Serial No. 736,037.

be utilized as means for suspending the sack for any purpose or forattaching the same to weighing scales.

The skid or shoe 4 consists of an oblong plate of rectangular form, saidplate con Sisting of sheet metal having its edges reinforced to stiftenthe same. T he reinforcement 5 applied to the front edge of the plateconsists of a stout wire or light rod, which is received in a foldedportion of the plate, said folded edge being secured in any manner.Openings (3 are formed in the front portion of the plate in the rear ofthe reinforcement to receive the snap hooks attached to the under sideof the sack about midway of its length. The rear and l0ngitudinal edgesof the plate are reinforced in any manner either by folding the same orby attaching bars or straps thereto. Openings 7 are formed near the rearcorners of the plate to receive the snap hooks attached to the upperrear corners of the sack. The skid or shoe may be formed of galvanizediron. commercial tin or other sheet material pref; Arably of metal bestadapted for the purpose.

In the practical application of the invention the shoe is fitted to theunder side of the sack at the rear end thereof so as to receive the wearwhen drawing the sack over the field, it being understood that the frontportion of the sack is usually elevated by reason of the outward pullthereon. The shoe prevents wear and tear of the sack and materiallyreduces the energy required for drawing the sack over the field sincethe plate will glide over obstructions such as stones, boulders, rootsand the like. It is further noted that the shoe will prevent muddy waterpenetrating the sack when the latter is drawn over marshy ground or softand muddy places, thereby preventing depreciation of the value of thecotton as is the case when the same becomes stained by muddy waterpenetrating the sack. The shoe. 'may vbe easily disconnected from onesack and quickly attached to another and in operation prevents the wearand overcomes the cost incident to repairs.

F rom the foregoing description, taken in connection with theaccompanying drawing, the advantages of the construction and of themethod of operation will be readily apparent to those skilled in the4art to which the invention appertains, and while I have described theprinciple of operation of the inventiomtogether with the device which Inow consider' to be the best embodiment thereof, I desire to have itunderstood that the device shown is merely illustrative, and that suchchanges may be made when desired as are Within the scope of the claimappended hereto.

Having thus described the invention what is claimed as new, is v Incombination, a cotton pickers sack, snap hooks secured to the upper sideof the rear corners of the sack, other snap hooks secured to the underside of the sack about midway of its ends and a skid consistingof anoblong sheet metal plate curved in its length yand having its four edgesreinforced 15 and provided near its four corners with Openings toreceive the before mentioned snap hooks, Whereb the skid is positivelyconnected to the sach.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature 20 in presence of twoWitnesses.

WILL rjsronr,

Witnesses C. A. ENGLAND, T. H. WILLIAMS.

